Last week the Chief of Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell promulgated a minute proscribing the use of “death symbols” within the army, provoking accusations of compromising morale and esprit de corps. Counter-images of Care Bears were invoked.
General Campbell is right, the critics are wrong, and this measure is long overdue.
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